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• Action has magic, grace and power in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Grace, Magic, Acting

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• The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Men, Illusion

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.

  John D. Arnold

  Ideas, Imagination, Creative

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• What you think determines your outlook on life. What you do determines your destiny.

  Barry Gallagher

  Destiny, Thinking, Outlook On Life

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Leadership, Men, Thinking

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1962). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an Autobiography: With Musings on Recent Events in India”

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• He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Destiny

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Needs, Treasure, Doers

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• The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Beautiful, Life Lesson, Things In Life

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• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Sarcastic

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• Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Literature

  Maxims and Reflections I

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• Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Crush, Morning

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• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Adventure, Sea, Indulge In

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• Men expect too much, do too little.

  Allen Tate

  Men, Littles, Too Much

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.86, Macmillan

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

  Arthur Helps

  Book, Men, Creeds

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• Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Crafts, Suits

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

  David Allen

  Waldo Emerson, Ancestor Worship, Ralph Waldo

  David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.35, Penguin

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• Vision with action can change the world.

  J. A. Baker

  Change, Leadership, Visions Of The Future

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• We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Time, Ambition, Effort

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• A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Powerful, Real

  Twitter post from Mar 02, 2016

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  Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Courage, Time

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• Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.

  Herb Kelleher

  Inspirational, Thinking, Growth

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• The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

  Samuel Smiles

  Done, Littles, Reason Why

  Samuel Smiles (18??). “Self-help”, p.113, St Pauls BYB

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